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Hugo Brandt Corstius
Hugo Brandt Corstius in 2010
Born(1935-08-29)29 August 1935
Died28 February 2014(2014-02-28) (aged 78)
NationalityDutch
Occupation(s)Linguist
Writer
Scientist
Known forOpperlandse taal- & letterkunde

Hugo Brandt Corstius (29 August 1935 – 28 February 2014) was a Dutch author, known for his achievements in both literature and science.[1]

In 1970, he was awarded a PhD on the subject of computational linguistics. He was employed at the Mathematisch CentruminAmsterdam. However, to the general public he is mostly known for his writing, in particular as a columnist for Vrij Nederland and de Volkskrant and as linguist and literary critic for Vrij Nederland, de Volkskrant, and NRC Handelsblad.

Pseudonyms

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Hugo Brandt Corstius wrote under over sixty different pseudonyms, allonyms and aliases. He claimed each of them to be a component of his character.

In Vrij Nederland he used the pseudonym Piet Grijs and between 1979 and 1986 in de Volkskrant he used the pseudonym Stoker. His other pseudonyms include Battus (inNRC Handelsblad and Vrij Nederland), Raoul Chapkis, Victor Baarn, Dolf Cohen, Maaike Helder, Peter Malenkov and Talisman.

The Battus name was reserved for writing on linguistics and language play, in columns, articles and books. Many forms of word play (palindromes, the longest attested word in Dutch, e-less Dutch, etc. etc.) were bundled in the volume Opperlandse taal- & letterkunde, ("Upperlandic linguistics", where "Upperlandic" is word play on "Netherlandic"), and twenty years later a sequel Opperlans! (deliberate misspelling). Both books are concerned with the form of Dutch words with little regard to meaning. He also wrote De Encyclopedie, a book parodying encyclopedias, containing about 300 pages numbered 1 through 40000 or thereabouts, with many puns, references to non-existent pages and other jokes.

Prizes

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Personal life

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His daughter Aaf is a columnist, his daughter Merel is a Montessori teacher and graduate student in Boston, and his son Jelle is also an author, and was a correspondentinRussia. Brandt Corstius died in Amsterdam after a long illness.

Bibliography

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References

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  1. ^ "Schrijver Hugo Brandt Corstius (78) overleden" (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. 2014-02-28. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
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